How an island-based hotelier caught up with the industry, drove out cost and continues to expand globally with IT. (Journal Article - September 1, 2007)

Many of you like nothing more than a good metric. A statistic that tells you what your peers are doing, a benchmark that gives you something to consider when mapping out your strategy. (Journal Article - August 1, 2007)

In a European history class at the University of California, Berkeley, a professor shows his students a portrait of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V on horseback, suited up for battle. (Journal Article - March 1, 2007)

Marketing is a necessary and integral part of running a smart IT organization. Yet while most CIOs would heartily agree that it's important, far too few effectively market IT. (Journal Article - February 1, 2007)

IT budget growth mirrors last year's as midmarket organizations seek to modernize and more. (Journal Article - January 1, 2007)

Jim Thie, vice president and CIO at Habitat for Humanity International, has a list of challenges unique to nonprofits, whether they're trade associations or charities. (Journal Article - January 1, 2007)

The gym called 24 Hour Fitness Lakeshore Towers in Irvine, Calif., looks more like a resort than the dank, dark facilities of yesteryear. (Journal Article - December 1, 2006)

In his first week on the job as CIO of Compass Health, a behavioral health nonprofit based in Everett, Wash., Rich De Brino got a crash course in the seamier side of vendor relations. (Journal Article - October 1, 2005)

The blackout highlighted the vulnerability of the electric grid to massive failures and to potential attacks by terrorists, giving new impetus to calls for more regulatory standards and enforcement in the utilities industry. (Journal Article - October 1, 2005)

CIO needs to figure out what IT processes and practices he should have in place to generate tangible value for his business. (Journal Article - August 1, 2005)

Midmarket CPG firms have been viewed as IT wallflowers, with the amount they spend on IT creeping down to 2.5% of revenue in 2004, a decrease of 0.3% from the previous year, according to AMR Research Inc. in Boston. (Journal Article - July 1, 2005)

Somewhere along a salmon-run river on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, Frank Bonetto raised his rifle and coolly fired a warning shot over the head of an approaching grizzly bear. (Journal Article - June 1, 2005)